My high school yearbook said that I aspired to become the Prime Minister of Great Britain which is untrue, sort of.
I HAD however had said I wanted to be a cabinet minister in Britain —- it was the yearbook editors who upped it to Prime Minister.
I doubted they would have done so if I was in fact quiet as a mouse and totally unpolitical : ie there was a very large grain of truth in what the yearbook editors wrote.
Similarly, I will argue - I am arguing, in fact, there was a grain of truth in what the yearbook editors wrote about Gabriel Wortman’s high school ambitions to join the RCMP upon graduation.
He might never had said that - or even thought that - but it was clear to many, even back then, that he was totally obsessed with the RCMP that his two uncles and one cousin ( so far) did in fact join.
I personally think that Gabriel did try to join the RCMP but failed to be accepted. Perhaps because he was already ‘known to Riverview RCMP‘ even back then - or because he failed the psych evaluation primitive as it likely was.
I think this reject by a group he admired so much warped Gabriel - as did some later rejections in other career paths - and helped lead up to his decision to kill, blast and burn his way into an early grave.
I know, I know many people have said he - in later life - mocked and disdained the mounties —-but I also know a fox who did much the same about a stack of grapes too high to eat...
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